Chairman's Message
Back in the fall of 1985, the first issue of Jewish Action made its much-anticipated appearance. The brainchild of the…
In this issue, we are honored to present poignant recollections and stories of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, z”tl, the rosh yeshivah…
Our editorial board thought long and hard before going ahead with this issue’s somewhat controversial cover story, “When Leaders Fail:…
A caveat: while reading the cover story in this issue about the frightening rise in anti-Semitism, it is easy to…
Growing up in Williamsburg in the fifties and sixties, I had something most of my friends could only dream of…
I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. Williamsburg in the 1950s and 60s, as I have written about in…
Not too many readers understand what it takes to come up with an eighty-eight-page full-color thought-provoking magazine, issue after issue,…
We are all familiar with the expression “two Jews, three opinions.” The fact that the Jewish people are opinionated is…
As I write this message on a Motzaei Shabbos in early October, we just finished reading parashas Lech Lecha, where…
We pride ourselves on producing a magazine that is not predictable and that brings you—our readers—articles you simply won’t find…
We recently celebrated Shavuos, a holiday on which we rejoice in the giving of the Torah not just to a…
